Foundation (Foundation Series #1)
by:
Isaac Asimov (author)
When the Galactic Empire started dying, a great psychohistorian set up the foundation to preserve human culture and shorten 30,000 years of chaotic barbarism.
When the Galactic Empire started dying, a great psychohistorian set up the foundation to preserve human culture and shorten 30,000 years of chaotic barbarism.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780553803716
Publish date: 2004-06-01
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Edition language: English
If I remember rightly, Asimov's robots do indeed find a cunning way around the three laws - they invent a Zero-th Law which states that "no robot can injure humanity or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm" which doesn't directly contradict the First Law, so their brains will accept it, b...
The Foundation was created by Seldon because he predicted a decline of the Empire which will bring back the dark ages. Seldon's intention is to shorten this period of the dark age to 1,000 years only. It was an interesting idea and made quite an interesting read. The book itself was divided into 5 p...
One more trip outside my usual reading waters. Science fiction. Foundation makes me remember why I loved science fiction when I was in my late teens and early twenties. The whole world is tilted and new ways of thinking and doing things become possible. All our world leaders need to read science fic...
Much too science-fictiony for my tastes (if that is even a real word).
I read this so long ago, the only thing I remember is liking it. Apparently enough to have kept it, because it's on the shelf.
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